Student leaders from around Ivies to meet The annual Ivy Council Fall Conference -- which Penn last hosted four years ago -- will help "facilitate discussion" about student life, activities funding, financial aid, health services and other major issues faced by student governments, according to Mo Saraiya, the Undergraduate Assembly's University Council steering representative and vice president of the Ivy Council. Saraiya, an Engineering junior, said each school will send four voting delegates to the conference and an unlimited number of non-voting observers, with a total of 58 students expected to attend. "This is a great opportunity for the UA and Penn to show itself off for the Ivy League," Saraiya said. He also stressed the importance of the meeting as an opportunity for members of the UA to make contacts with counterparts at other schools who can offer help and advice in the future. "First and foremost, it's a networking thing," he said. The Ivy Council was created in 1993 by students at Ivy League schools and is supported by a board of governors comprised of alumni who offer advice and raise funds. "It's getting stronger every year," Saraiya said, noting that this weekend's meeting "is probably going to be the strongest showing every for Ivy Council." -- Jeffrey Joseph
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